Junipero Serra Quotes

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra

Inspirational, Life, Health

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
Junipero Serra

Reality, Made, Making

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
Junipero Serra

Power, Father, Sick

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
Junipero Serra

Two, Here, Except

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Junipero Serra

Before, Here, Sea

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
Junipero Serra

God, Famous, Before

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
Junipero Serra

Time, Bad, Daily

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
Junipero Serra

Good, Through, Country

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.
Junipero Serra

Confidence, Place, Lives

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.
Junipero Serra

Found, Quite, Abundance

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
Junipero Serra

Good, Seen, Fishing

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Biography

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 24, 1713

Died: August 28, 1784

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